FREEPORT — “Exquisite,” a traveling exhibition from the Artisan Gallery of Paoli, Wisconsin, is featured at the Freeport Art Museum, 121 N. Harlem Ave., until Jan. 10. For this exhibit, the Artisan Gallery invited a group of artists to each create one-third of a figurative composition. The images were then combined to create a number of complete works. This take on an old parlor game made popular by surrealist artists in the 1920s often resulted in unusual and...

The suburbs have had it rough in the last few years. The 2008-2009 economic collapse led to waves of foreclosures in suburbia, as home prices plummeted. More recently, census data suggest that Americans are actually shifting back closer to city...

Olga Gize Carlile is one of the most widely known personalities in Freeport history. She wrote for and was a featured writer for The Journal-Standard for more than 60 years. Every year, she entered state and national writers’ contests...

Dear Annie: My son and his wife have an elderly cat who scratches herself raw. One night, I noticed that the poor thing had bleeding scabs. I asked how long it had been going on, and they said, "Years." I had no idea this cat was...

DEAR ABBY: I recently got married. My husband goes through my purse, my papers, my jewelry, my clothes -- and even my underwear. He says that as my husband he has the right to do that. He says I am wrong to object.What are your thoughts on...

ATHENS, Greece — A ferry carrying nearly 500 people caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu early Sunday, trapping passengers on the top decks as gale-force winds and choppy seas hampered the evacuation.